What's new in IBM MQ 9.2.0

IBM® MQ 9.2.0 delivers features and enhancements beyond those that were available in IBM MQ 9.1.0 Long Term Support. The features that you have access to depends on your product entitlement.

For more information on what you can purchase with IBM MQ, and what each purchase entitles you to install, see IBM MQ license information.

New for IBM MQ for Multiplatforms - base and Advanced entitlement

On Multiplatforms, that is, all platforms except IBM MQ for z/OS®, the following features and enhancements are available with both base product entitlement, and with Advanced entitlement.

Active/active messaging

• Automatic balancing of a pool of connected applications across a set of available queue managers

Extending your network

• IBM MQ Internet Pass-Thru

Managing IBM MQ

• Support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
• Increased level of control to determine how IBM MQ uses available storage
• Version 2 of the REST API
• Enhancements to the administrative REST API
• Host header validation for the IBM MQ Console and REST API
• Updated IBM MQ Console look and feel
• Enhancements to the IBM MQ Bridge to Salesforce
• Configurable ephemeral directory
• Userdata directory
• License acceptance after installation on Linux
• Installing IBM MQ for Linux with the yum installer on Linux Red Hat
• More effective integration with WebSphere Liberty

Developing for IBM MQ

• Enhancements to the messaging REST API
• Support for running applications on Microsoft .NET Core
• Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) shared subscription enhancement

New for IBM MQ for Multiplatforms - Advanced entitlement only

The following features and enhancements are available only with Advanced entitlement.

Active/active messaging

• Disaster recovery for high availability replicated data queue managers
• Highly available Managed File Transfer agents

Extending your IBM MQ network

• Use of IBM Aspera fasp.io Gateway streaming for IBM MQ messages
• Enhancements to the IBM MQ Bridge to blockchain
• Support for PKCS #11 cryptographic hardware in MQIPT

Managing IBM MQ

• New features and enhancements for Managed File Transfer
• Identification of installs of High Availability Replica
• Improved password protection for Java Advanced Message Security clients

Deploying the IBM MQ Advanced container

• .zip images of IBM MQ are available for use with development and production containers
• MQ Operators replace Helm as the mechanism for deploying an IBM MQ Advanced container

New for IBM MQ for z/OS - base and Advanced VUE entitlement

The following features and enhancements are available both with base product entitlement, and with IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS Value Unit Edition (Advanced VUE) entitlement.

Fault tolerance

• Improved log throughput using zHyperWrite

Extending your IBM MQ network

• Enhancements to IBM MQ support for IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition
• IBM MQ Internet Pass-Thru

Managing IBM MQ

• Support for data set encryption
• Support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3
• SECPROT attribute available on z/OS
• Simplified support for backwards migration
• Simplified installation of continuous delivery releases
• Version 2 of the REST API
• Enhancements to the administrative REST API
• Updated IBM MQ Console look and feel
• Simpler configuration of the product ID (PID) that the mqweb server runs under
• Host header validation for the IBM MQ Console and REST API
• Message-driven bean problem resolution

Developing for IBM MQ

• Enhancements to the messaging REST API

New for IBM MQ for z/OS - Advanced and Advanced VUE entitlement only

The following features and enhancements are available with Advanced or Advanced VUE entitlement only.

IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS entitlement

The following capabilities are new for Long Term Support at IBM MQ for z/OS 9.2.0. However, they are not available in the IBM MQ 9.2 Continuous Delivery releases:

• IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS Value Unit Edition features now available with IBM MQ Advanced for z/OS entitlement

Active/active messaging

• Highly available Managed File Transfer agents

Managing IBM MQ

• Advanced Message Security interception on server-to-server message channels
• Improved password protection for Java Advanced Message Security clients
• New features and enhancements for Managed File Transfer

New IBM MQ for z/OS features - Advanced VUE entitlement only

The following features are available with Advanced VUE entitlement only.

Extending your IBM MQ network

• Use of IBM Aspera fasp.io Gateway streaming for IBM MQ messages
• IBM MQ Bridge to blockchain Hyperledger Fabric support